Place: Ar/Ge.T19.514

This locus is characterized by a grey/dark brown (possibly ashy?), loose, silty loam matrix. We collected a small sample of charcoal for radiocarbon dating from L514 (Ar/Ge.T19.514.C14.01), just west of the wall fall on the eastern wall of the trench. There are a lot of burned bones coming out of this locus. We found a ceramic “jar stopper” (Ar/Ge.T19.514.CO.01) in the NE corner of the locus, and a small fragment of a polishing stone (Ar/Ge.T19.L.01).
In Locus 514, there is another curvilinear section of the raised, dark brown, compact soil in the southern part of the locus. We found a small piece of charcoal in the southern part of the locus, right on the border between L514 and L515, at a depth of 2282.72 m, which was collected as Ar/Ge.T19.514.C14.02. Two macro-botanical samples were taken near the border between L514 and L515 (Ar/Ge.T19.514.MB.01-02). A small retouched flake of translucent obsidian was found in the NW corner of the locus, almost under the large dressed stone along the northern wall of the trench (Ar/Ge.T19.514.L.02). We also found a large ceramic disk (“jar stopper”), just west of the raised feature in the southern end of the locus (Ar/Ge.T19.514.CO.02). In the SW corner of the locus, we found a small, whole shell (Ar/Ge.T19.514.SH.01), possibly from a snail, as well as an unknown mineral (at 2282.72 m) to show to the geologists. We took another macro-botanical sample nearby (in the SE corner of the locus).We found another retouched flake (Ar/Ge.T19.514.L.03) in the SE corner of the locus.